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- Posted by wantonamara 8bTx (My Page) on Thu, May 29, 14 at 13:20
| Very nice garden. Nice use of some drought hardy plants. I found Verbena rigida to be very aggressive in my garden and it is listed as an invasive species on the web. I did take it out eventually, even though it was pretty. It took a lot of work to remove it. Ten years later I found some seeds coming up still. The broken stems root from nothing. The stolens travel under walk ways. Just a warning. I too liked how it looked . I liked that it needed no water and alkaline soil. YES it was happy where plants usually aren't. I was told it was a native but it is not. |
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| its been there for 5 years-im pretty tuf on it |
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| thought about it-i am pretty tuf on it but i think the main thing is it stays pretty damp in the winter and dies back to almost nothing-doesnt seem to be seed hardy here either-here is northern nev |
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- Posted by wantonamara 8bTx (My Page) on Thu, May 29, 14 at 13:37
| I think that is how long I had it and it exploded the last year. I live next to huge ranches so I am very careful about exotic plants naturalizing because no one other than the cows and the deer are weeding out in these stretches of land.. |
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- Posted by wantonamara 8bTx (My Page) on Thu, May 29, 14 at 13:50
| It is amazing how regional a plant invasiveness can be. I see differences in plants even within 20 miles. Salvia chiquita seeds out like hell on my land but in town on their clay, the seeds never sprout. The plants stay sized moderately. I am on a porous limestone and the things go crazy. I backed my plants off from a slope so the downpours we get do not carry the seed too far. |
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